The Wedding rice

Still eating the wedding rice
months after the big day.

Not that we needed to
mind you, there was just so much of it–
a year’s supply maybe.

Remember the night we spent
filling tiny sandwich bags
neatly wrapping each with crisp
yellow ribbon.

It’s not hard to imagine
there’s still a lot of sweetness there
cooked into these pearly grains of rice

Saved from the summer,
so full of promise,
so full of love.